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Yesterday’s classics for today’s children: The Baldwin Project
I discovered the Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project, through LIS News this morning.
Named in honor of James Baldwin (1841-1925), and officially called, Bringing Yesterday’s Classics to Today’s Children,
the Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This includes all works first published before 1923. The period from 1880 or so until 1922 offers a wealth of material in all categories, including: Nursery Rhymes, Fables, Folk Tales, Myths, Legends and Hero Stories, Literary Fairy Tales, Bible Stories, Nature Stories, Biography, History, Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, Games, and Craft Activities.
Titles include the classics many of us read a generation or two ago, for instance, the works of Padraic Colum, Howard Pyle, Ruth Sawyer, and Andrew Lang..
Users have permission to:
print copies for personal and educational uses. The texts are formatted so that attractive copies can be printed easily, in larger type for younger readers and smaller type for older ones, with illustrations included where possible. Teachers and parents can make use of the readers that are already available, or they can construct their own readers by selecting stories from the existing pool.
The growing collection now includes 514 books and is searchable:
By author
By books, and within books:
Items in collected works are searchable, as well:
Stories
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About Joyce Valenza
Joyce is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication, a technology writer, speaker, blogger and learner. Follow her on Twitter: @joycevalenza
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